Unit 3 test Explorers & settlements Flashcards
_____were built to house soldiers who protected settlers.
Presidio
When the ships reached Haiti, a Spanish _________ captured one of the French vessels.
Privateer
a Salle and his men built Fort St. Louis. It was not truly a settlement but a ________.
Stockade
_______ were founded to convert and educate the native peoples in the Spanish culture and religion.
Missions
Spain’s highest ranking official in New Spain was __________ Antonio de Mendoza.
Viceroy
Coronado was a young noble who had been named governor of one of the _______ of New Spain.
Province
Spanish ____________ helped to conquer and settle lands for Spain.
Conquistadors
La Salle led an expedition to to ________ the entire length of the Mississippi River.
Navigate
Discovered new lands thought to be Asia
Christopher Columbus
Inspired explorers to sail West
Christopher Columbus SPAIN
Inspired explorers to sail West
Christopher Columbus
Built Mexico City in New Spain
Hernan Cortes
1519
Texas was seen
Conquered Aztec Empire for Spain
Hernan Cortes SPAIN
First European to see the TX coast
Alonso Alvarez de PinEDA
1718
Alamo was the first mission (Fray O. founded it) (San Antonio de Valero)
, Chicken War
Drew maps of the Gulf of Mexico that were used by other explorers. He also mapped the Texas coastline
Alonso Alvarez de PinEDA
he drew that while seeing the coast of TX
survivors of his expedition washed ashore in TX
Panfilo de Narvaez SPAIN
first European to explore Texas
Cabeza de Vaca
Got shipwrecked on the coast of Texas
Cabeza de Vaca SPAIN
Wrote stories about Texas that inspired future explorers.
Cabeza de Vaca
his journey began at the Age of Contact
Cabeza de Vaca
Discovered Palo Duro Canyon
De Coronado
Searched for Cibola and Quivira
De Coronado
_____ was murdered by his own men
La Salle
The only French explorer
La Salle
Established Fort St. Louis
La Salle
His fort became a stockade
Claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France
La Salle
More than 6,000 people lived in his settlements!
Jose de Escandon also Father of the Lower Rio Grande Valley
Founded 20 settlements in southern Texas
Jose de Escandon
Antonio Madrgil de Jesus
Opened the most successful mission
Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo
He reopened missions that were abandoned during the chicken war.
He also Established Los Adaes as the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas.
the name that has FATHER (Francisco Hidalgo)
Asked the French to reopen San Francisco de los Tejas.
Priest that built San Francisco de los Tejas
Damian Massenet
also wanted to build a mission among the Caddo people of East Texas.
Sent to drive the French from East Texas after the Chicken War.
Augyao
French settlement near Matagorda Bay
FORT ST LOUIS
Unofficial capital of Spanish Texas
LAS ADEAS
First Mission in East Texas
DE TEJAS BECUASE IT SAYS TEXAS SO IT WOULD BE NO 1!
place on the Great Plains said to be filled with gold
QUIVIRA
Settlement midway between the Rio Grande and East Texas
DE BEXAR
bex- next- aka in between
